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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 enables the development and management of application integration within and between organizations using the universal standard of XML. BizTalk Server 2000 provides comprehensive process management and is a platform for reliable business document interchange and business processes integration.

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000

What is the difference between the BizTalk Initiative, the BizTalk Framework, and the BizTalk Server?

The BizTalk Initiative represents the set of collective investments that Microsoft is making in order to promote the adoption of XML as an effective, open mechanism for integrating applications and business processes.

These investments are organized into three categories: a framework, industry efforts, and products.

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What is the BizTalk Framework?

The BizTalk Framework provides an open design framework for implementing an Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema and a set of XML tags used in messages sent between applications. Microsoft and other organizations are using the BizTalk Framework to produce consistent XML-based BizTalk document schemas to enable integration between business systems, independent of operating system, programming model, or programming language.

For more information visit the BizTalk site.

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What are the investments that Microsoft is making in industry efforts?

There are three primary activities targeted for the adoption of XML as an open, interoperable mechanism for integrating applications and business processes within and between organizations.

  • BizTalk.org provides a Web-based community that allows organizations to learn about XML and BizTalk, collaborate through newsgroups and other public forums, and get access to training and other valuable resources. This community is hosted at http://www.biztalk.org/, and is freely accessible to anyone over the Internet. This site supports community efforts by documentation and reference materials, training, and online discussion groups.

  • BizTalk.org hosts a public library to share and store BizTalk document schemas. This library allows organizations to find and reuse business document schemas that are valuable to them, as well as upload their own schemas for use across a set of partners or trading community. This library provides important discovery and reuse facilities, as well as a mechanism to send notifications after a change or deletion. For example, you can visit the site and search for all schemas that have been submitted to the library within a given industry, by a given company, or that contains a given keyword. You can then decide which schemas, if any, you want to use. Further, you can register your use of those schemas, in order to receive automatic notification when the submitting organization makes updates or replacements.

  • The BizTalk steering committee, composed of industry-leading vendors, standards bodies and corporate customers, provides guidance on the future direction of the BizTalk Framework and includes American Petroleum Institute, Ariba Inc., The Baan Co., The Boeing Co., Clarus Corp., Commerce One Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Concur Technologies Inc., Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA), Dell Computer Corp., EXE Technologies Inc., Extensibility Inc., Extricity Software Inc., Ford Motor Co., GE Information Services (GEIS), Harbinger Corp., i2 Technologies Inc., Intelisys Electronic Commerce Inc., J.D. Edwards & Co., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Microsoft Corp., New Era of Networks (NEON), Open Applications Group (OAG), PeopleSoft Inc., Pivotal Software Inc., Reuters, RosettaNet and SAP AG, Siebel Systems Inc., Sterling Commerce Inc., United Parcel Service, U.S. Department of Defense, and webMethods Inc.

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What is BizTalk Server 2000?

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 provides the tools and infrastructure that businesses require to automate, integrate, and manage business processes. The integration of business applications within and between businesses or across organizational boundaries is made possible, regardless of the platforms and operating systems used. BizTalk Server 2000 is based on standards. Combining standards with a loosely coupled approach to solving application-integration challenges, BizTalk Server 2000 facilitates the creation of new business communities that bring together "best-of-breed" processes from Web sites; line-of-business (LOB) solutions including enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems such as SAP, JD Edwards, and Baan; host-based systems; and custom-built solutions.

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What is the status of BizTalk Server 2000 today?

The BizTalk Server Enterprise 2000 Beta is currently available for download or to order the kit which includes all the necessary components on CD. General availability of BizTalk Server 2000 will be in the fall.

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What is the BizTalk Jumpstart Kit?

The BizTalk Jumpstart Kit is designed to aid developers in the immediate creation of BizTalk Server-compatible software applications. The BizTalk Jumpstart Kit makes it easier for developers to use Extensible Markup Language (XML) schemas and the BizTalk Framework in current development projects, and to realize the benefits of industry-standard XML for electronic commerce and application integration within and across organizations.

The BizTalk Jumpstart Kit is now known as the BizTalk Server SDK.

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